GUILTY FL - Sarah Boone, 42, charged with murdering boyfriend Jorge Torres, 42, by leaving him locked in suitcase, Winter Park, Feb 2020 #3

[sasha17]

Got to love that one. Defense counsel cited / objected for attempting to read from something that might not be in evidence. Still shooting for a mistrial I wonder? SMH. Sidebar. IANAL.

Guessing now this is going to get slow walked so that defense counsel gets the last word before the weekend. MOO

The judge said they're cleared to stay until 10pm tonight. I sure hope defense's closing doesn't go on that long!

 

[Megnut]

Side bars during closing arguments....

 

[Seattle1]

Owens is rubbing me the wrong way with this sexist "little girls are born different" rant.

I agree. He's using it as if it also means that "girls" have a right to use "self-defense" as an excuse to murder even when they are the aggressor (because they're "girls").

Duh...which is essentially SB's defense!

 

[Wishbone]

He is going to bring up the same points and issues repeatedly. This will never end. Add to that, his voice is not clear like the state attorney's was. I'm hating this.

 

[Izzylizzy]

Owens
"whatever she does you do not have a right to hit a woman."

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

Defense counsel there said that JT got into the suitcase.

And then he says zipped it up…….. NOT MAKING IT CLEAR that it was his client, SB, that zipped it up. SMH.

I may need to mute this and go finish making dinner. MOO

 

[Kittybunny]

I cannot take the BSS BS from Owens, painting Sarah as a helpless victim...I wonder if anyone on the jury is buying it, or if their eyes are rolling so far back in their heads they can see their own brain. It's completely laughable, and I hope they see right through her.

Every time I feel a twinge of sympathy for Owens for having Sarah as a client and very little time to prepare for trial, I remember that he voluntarily signed up for this gig.

Question from a legal standpoint: IF (big IF, because I don't think it's likely) the jury buys into the BSS defense, what are their options - full acquittal, or something lesser, or is it up to them to decide what to do with that? Apologies if it's been discussed, I am all in on the 2nd-degree Murder boat, but Florida juries (thanks Casey Anthony case) have given me PTSD (for real) and I need to prepared just in case.

Owens: "Sarah Boone is not perfect."
Judge: "Sarah, are you still satisfied with your representation?"
Sarah: "Not any more!"

 

[Megnut]

It's JT's fault. Because he got in the suitcase voluntarily.

Wow.

Imagine if the genders were reversed here.

 

[acehard]

Lies and victim blaming. Not a good strategy IMO

 

[Wishbone]

It's JT's fault. Because he got in the suitcase voluntarily.

Wow.

Imagine if the genders were reversed here.

And that's another thing. We don't know if he was blackmailed into getting in the suitcase. She could have been holding something she had access to and threatened to destroy it, like other documents. Who knows for sure.

 

[texaslb218]

Owen's analogy doesn't fit under any circumstances. A police officer has milliseconds maybe and SB had hours and hours.

 

[Izzylizzy]

He is going to bring up the same points and issues repeatedly. This will never end. Add to that, his voice is not clear like the state attorney's was. I'm hating this.

I have the captions on my TV
Watching it on Youtube

 

[Izzylizzy]

Lies and victim blaming. Not a good strategy IMO

If there were no videos he probably could get away with a lot of it.
The videos speak for themselves SB's role in the violence and her vile rhetoric and berating make it even worse for her.

 

[Wishbone]

Now she is blaming everything on JT. And it's JUSTIFIABLE for SB to defend herself against a dying man stuck in a suitcase because he is the reason she responds in the manner she does, he traumatized her.

 

[Megnut]

And that's another thing. We don't know if he was blackmailed into getting in the suitcase. She could have been holding something she had access to and threatened to destroy it, like other documents. Who knows for sure.

Why was this accepted? SB's self report.

According to the sword play day, evebt comes first, made up game story comes later.

Why did no one ponder what else was in the suitcase? Just accepted SB's self report. Those weren't household items.

I've never seen a trial where the defendant supplies the facts, which haven't been vetted by anyone.

Praying the jury gets this right.

JMO

 

[acehard]

Jury has a laptop and can view the videos multiple times. All this unsubstantiated nonsense wont help IMO

 

[Izzylizzy]

And that's another thing. We don't know if he was blackmailed into getting in the suitcase. She could have been holding something she had access to and threatened to destroy it, like other documents. Who knows for sure.

I thought SB said she went up stairs while he was going to hide (?) and when she came down he was in the suitcase and it was then that she zipped it?

 

[I am not Sherlock H.]

This is unbelievable. This defense attorney IMO is playing quite loose with facts, evidence, and his closing statements! And there, state objected, judge sustained, and statement stricken!

Seems he is attempting to relitigate his entire case.

I have my own beliefs as to what is occurring. But need to sit on my hands and finish typing the rest. SMH. IANAL. MOO

 

[Megnut]

Is this closing argumess going to 10 pm?

 

[Wishbone]

I thought SB said she went up stairs while he was going to hide (?) and when she came down he was in the suitcase and it was then that she zipped it?

And why do we believe what that liar has to say. I'm not sure how JT got in that suitcase but I won't take SB's word about what happened.